Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 7:33 PM Masks may be coming back in force in Worcester, already on alert to the threat of a "tripledemic" - surging cases of COVID-19, the flu and, notably, RSV. "As flu season begins... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:39 PM Candidates differ on approach to health education standards and CRT |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:31 PM South Carolina health officials are predicting a potentially severe flu season. |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:25 PM Medicaid suffered a loss of more than $500,000 as "a result of Steiner's admitted conduct," authorities said. |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:13 PM The vast majority of Americans will find multiple options for health insurance coverage for 2023 on HealthCare.gov after open enrollment began Tuesday under the Affordable Care... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:03 PM The Chicago White Sox managerial search ended with a stunning pick two years ago when Tony La Russa was brought out of retirement at the age of 76 to try to take them to the... |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 5:51 PM About 58,000 children under 5 are hospitalized due to RSV infection each year. |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 5:51 PM California is now an 'emerging hotspot' for the family of variants, known to be the most immune evasive and transmissible yet, according to experts. |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 5:19 PM Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious disease at South Shore Health, explains the history of work on an RSV vaccine and who should get Pfizer's shot, if it is approved. |
Health feed - News BreaK Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:59 PM Renewed and warranted interest in birth equity has understandably directed new funders to the field of maternal and perinatal health equity. The crisis of persistent inequities... |
WebMD Health Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:03 PM Hair experts share their best anti-aging hair care tips and tricks to keep your strands looking healthy and youthful to represent your individual style. |
WebMD Health Tuesday, November 1, 2022 2:14 PM That's the take-home message in a new CDC report, which found that nearly 90% of outbreaks of acute gastrointestinal infections in schools and child care settings result from person-to-person contact. |
WebMD Health Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1:11 PM Some Hispanic women or Latinas aren't always able to get the breast cancer screening they need. Learn about programs to help change that. |
WebMD Health Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:04 PM According to a new study, a COVID infection can reduce the number of bacterial species in the gut, creating an opportunity for dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria to thrive. |
WebMD Health Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:02 PM We know cancer patients can benefit from exercise, and now Dutch researchers suggest starting sooner rather than later. |
Mark's Daily Apple Tuesday, November 1, 2022 12:11 PM Back when I was competing at an elite level of marathon and triathlon, we paid lip service to rest and recovery, but recovery looked mostly like lying on the couch for hours on end with a gallon of ice cream resting on my chest. I poured all my energy into training sessions such that I had nothing left in the tank on off days. Even basic household chores were a big ask. If I knew then what I know now, I would have made more of an effort to move on my off days, incorporating more active recovery instead of the passive, frankly slothful recovery I favored at the time. I suspect even the average fitness buff now understands that the real fitness gains don't happen in the gym or on the track; they happen during the recovery period. You get stronger, fitter, faster thanks to the processes the body undertakes to repair damage caused by exercise and to prepare for your next bout. However, I still see athletes at all levels from general fitness enthusiasts to weekend warrior endurance athletes to high-level competitors resisting recovery. They feel guilty on days they don't train. When they're too busy to hit the gym, or accumulated soreness or fatigue forces them to take a day off, they worry that they're losing all their hard-won gains. So they're usually happy to learn that taking days totally off isn't necessary, or even ideal, for optimizing recovery and long-term performance. It's usually better to keep moving on recovery days. You can and should hit the gym or hop on your bike between workouts, provided you move at a far lower intensity. What is Active Recovery When people extol the virtues of active recovery, they are actually referring to three different things: Recovering between sets or reps within a single workout. Think walking between sprint repetitions to bring your heart rate down instead of sitting down on the track. Recovering at the end of a workout, as in an extended cooldown. For example, doing an easy spin on a stationary bike and a few minutes of dynamic stretching to end your sprint session. Using movement on your off days—days you don't have a formal training session planned—to enhance recovery. We'll focus on the latter today, but the goal of all three is fundamentally the same. Exercise creates tissue damage and burns through fuel, including intramuscular glycogen. That physical damage and the process of cellular metabolism create byproducts like lactate in the muscles and bloodstream and lead to inflammation, DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness), and fatigue. Active recovery increases circulation to working tissues (delivering nutrients and speeding up the clearance of waste products), reduces soreness, and improves perceptions of fatigue so athletes are ready to hit their next training session with more vigor. Active recovery workouts also provide a welcome break from narrowly focused training regimens. Most athletes complain that they don't have time to do all the "other stuff" they know they should be doing—cross-training, foam … Continue reading "Active Recovery Workouts" The post Active Recovery Workouts appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple. |
